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SABBATH S
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HOOL LESSON QUARTERLY
They have even a more sacred relationship to God than have
the angels who have never
fallen."—"Testimonies for the
Church," volume 5, pages 739,
740.
2. "All the paternal love which has come down from gen-
eration to generation through the channel of human hearts,
all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls
of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean, when
compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue
cannot utter it; pen cannot portray it. You may meditate
upon it every day of your life; you may search the Scriptures
diligently in order to understand it; you may summon every
power and capability that God has given you, in the endeavor
to comprehend the love and compassion of the heavenly Fa-
ther; and yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study
that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the
length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love
of God in giving His Son to die for the world. Eternity it-
self can never fully reveal it. Yet as we study the Bible,
and meditate upon the life of Christ and the plan of redemp-
tion, these great themes will open to our understanding more
and more. And it will be ours to realize the blessing which
Paul desired for the Ephesian church, when he prayed 'that
the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may
give unto you
the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
knowledge of Him;
the eyes of your understanding being en-
lightened, that ye may know what is the hope of His calling,
and what
the riches of the glory
of His inheritance in the
saints, and what is
the exceeding greatness of His power
to
usward who believe.'
"— Id., page 740.
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3. "We may have high anticipations in regard to the
things of this life, but we shall meet with disappointment.
We shall find that they fade away. But here is 'an inherit-
ance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away,
reserved in heaven for you.' We .want our thoughts to be
fixed on the things that will abide, not upon those that pass
away with the using. If we fix our hopes on the future, im-
mortal world, we shall not be disappointed.
"When Christ came into this world, He saw that men had
left the future, eternal life out of their reckoning. He came
to present that life before us, that by beholding it we might
be led to change our relation to the things of this life, that
our affections might be placed upon the things above, and not
upon the things of the earth, so soon to pass away. The
shadow that Satan has caused to intervene between our souls
and God, Christ seeks to roll back, that the view of God and
eternity may become clear. While He does not despise this
world, He places it in its proper position of subordination.
And then He places the things of eternity in their relative
importance before us, that we may fix the eye of faith upon
the unseen. The things of temporal interest have power to
engross the thoughts and affections, and it is important that